Plantation to Paradise, Designing the Caribbean/Handkerchiefs, 2018
Digital collage, concept and design by Pilar Castillo.
(Plantation to Paradise, Designing the Caribbean is a multi-media series.)
Each 17.5” x 17.5” print on cotton fabric.
Further examining the vintage travel-ad as a historical document and re-appropriating the visual language into a series of collages printed on cotton fabric, shifts the focus to the
materiality of the image as it aims to deconstruct a romanticized plantation era. In this context the historical narrative printed on cotton handkerchiefs is both sentimental and material, as a canvas to literally bring a personal history to the surface. Handkerchiefs represent the fabric of human emotion, a material that collects blood, sweat and tears. It is
a material form that most Caribbean people relate to labor and generations past.
Digital collage, concept and design by Pilar Castillo.
(Plantation to Paradise, Designing the Caribbean is a multi-media series.)
Each 17.5” x 17.5” print on cotton fabric.
Further examining the vintage travel-ad as a historical document and re-appropriating the visual language into a series of collages printed on cotton fabric, shifts the focus to the
materiality of the image as it aims to deconstruct a romanticized plantation era. In this context the historical narrative printed on cotton handkerchiefs is both sentimental and material, as a canvas to literally bring a personal history to the surface. Handkerchiefs represent the fabric of human emotion, a material that collects blood, sweat and tears. It is
a material form that most Caribbean people relate to labor and generations past.